saturday 7th may 2005
la Chapelle des Gaillards, Poitiers, France
fee : 5 euros / free for goto10 members

A night dedicated to Intr_Version records (from Canada), one of the finest electronic music label today, providing deep and rare digital emotions. Mitchell Akiyama, aMute and Arden live concerts to show that laptop music is not only a story of computer but above all music in all its senses with instruments (drums, guitars, bass, …), visuals and humanity.

The Intr_Version label has been growing years after years in the hearts of minimal and mixed genres music fans since more than 3 years now. With an eclectic catalogue going from the minimal post-rock of aMute to the abstract hip-hop of Ghislain Poirier and the electronica of Vitamins for you. But the goal is always the same : to create a real territory for sensual and dense experimentations. We are proud to welcome some of their favorite performers for a night that our walls will surely remember.

Toronto born, montreal based Mitchell Akiyama in a few short years has carved a niche for himself as one of canada’s premier avant-garde electronic musicians. originally trained in classical music and jazz on piano and guitar, Akiyama began composing electronic music six years ago. He has since come to incorporate traditional instruments and real world sound sources in his compositions, fusing the organic and digital. the results can be beautiful and lush, jarring and abrasive, but are, above all, always moving. He’s the director of the Intr_Version label and the half of Désormais, one of Intr_Version cult band. He has been releasing materials and albums on labels such as Raster Noton, Alien8 recordings, Force Inc, Eat This, List and last year on the Brussels based label Sub Rosa. His live shows are always unique and are not only laptop acts. It’s a real time creation in which you will loose yourself. Magic.

aMute is the key project of Jérôme Deuson. Passionate about textures, instruments and dreams, Deuson delivered his critically acclaimed “a hundred dry trees” last year on Akiyama’s imprint and since then played about 25 shows in Europe and in Canada. Working more and more as a band, aMute is also a real live emotion with the presence and abrasive side of Stephan Fedele who will play the drums all along the tour. aMute will present some reworks of the album and some piece from the forthcoming album previewed for October 2005.

Arden is : aMute (Jérôme Deuson), Mitchell Akiyama, Sogar (Jurgen Hëckel), Sébastien Roux, Jeuc Dietrich and Christophe Bailleau. The Arden project was launched at the beginning of 2003 as a conversation concept between Jérôme Deuson and Jeuc Dietrich and later hatched into a fully-fleged collaboration. After much difficulty coordinating a weekend long jam session, everyone joined up and recorded intensly for 3 days. Their first recording session, “Conceal”, was later reworked by Jerome and Christophe Bailleau through several weeks in the studio. Later during the summer months, Sébastien joined up for the final mastering touches. “Conceal” is the starting point of Stilll, a new Belgian label led by Alain Lefebvre and Deuson. It’s an album of improvised music but most of all it’s an album where energy and melodic inspiration creates an invisible line between what people usually call post-rock and digital improv production. For the tour and the promo of the album, the band will be represented by Akiyama, Deuson and Fedele as a pared down version, but with the same concept and approach as the album.

http://www.intr-version.com
http://www.amute.net

_MITCHELL AKIYAMA
live & videos - ambient areas with electronic bleeps
(Raster Noton/Sub Rosa/Intr_version - Canada) > listen to Mitchell Akiyama
_aMUTE
live & videos - post rock electronic drones
(Intr_version - Belgium) > listen to aMute
_ARDEN
live & videos - experimental ambient music
(Intr_version - Canada/Belgium/France) > listen to Arden

with the technical support of the Espace Mendès France / Fabrik Images, Poitiers Jeunes and Le Confort Moderne